vl: deprecate the "-hdachs" option

If the user needs to specify the disk geometry, the corresponding
parameters of the "-device ide-hd" option should be used instead.
"-hdachs" is considered as deprecated and might be removed soon.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1493270454-1448-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
index f46e070e0d..42d4bce439 100644
--- a/vl.c
+++ b/vl.c
@@ -3231,6 +3231,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
                         }
                     }
                 }
+                error_report("'-hdachs' is deprecated, please use '-device"
+                             " ide-hd,cyls=c,heads=h,secs=s,...' instead");
                 break;
             case QEMU_OPTION_numa:
                 opts = qemu_opts_parse_noisily(qemu_find_opts("numa"),